Khevisberi performs different rituals and ceremonies and supervises brewing of the sacred beer.
[1][2] Historically, Georgian patriarchal highlander communities enjoyed a degree of autonomy and they were not integrating into the feudal system.
the khevisberi, far more than any distant priest or power, who directed the spiritual, ritual and moral affairs of the mountains.
He was and is elected by his peers, not on the basis of age or wealth, but for his deeper qualities [specialized ritual, mythological, and esoteric knowledge inherited from his ancestors].
He decides on all questions of law, presides over festivals and sacred ceremonies; he, alone, approaches the shrine and undertakes the sacrifice and in so doing brings peace to the dead and placates the deities.